This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/yBC.2ACI/568.1 Message Board Post: I am not a "Blanton expert," so please take all of the following with a "grain of salt" (i.e., it would need to be independently proven). I understand that something like 20+ members of the Blanton family are buried in Maury Cemetery in Richmond, VA, though there are no headstones/markers for any of them (but the cemetery records show the section/area where they are buried). I guess the Joshua of whom you speak was the son of Richard Blanton (d. abt. 1799-1800) and the brother of William, James, Richard, John, Peggy and Elizabeth? Richard Blanton's father was Thomas Blanton, who suppsedly married Jane McGuffey (Thomas is as far back as I have gone on this family). Unfortunately, I don't have any information on Joshua, other than he seems to be listed in the 1785 Head of Household record for Prince Edward County, VA. His sister Elizabeth Blanton married George Davidson in 1799, and his brother Richard A. Blanton married Elizabeth F. Davidson. Per another source, I'm told that Richard A. and Elizabeth had John Archer Blanton (who married Sarah Ellen Abbott), Mary Ellen Blanton, Elizabeth Blanton, Lucy Blanton and Joseph J. ("JJ") Blanton (who married Alice Mills). I understand that Ann Nancy Blanton (who I think was a daughter of the above Thomas Blanton) had an affair with Abraham Womack, Sr. (who was married to someone else at the time). They had a son Thomas, who used Womack as his last name, and a son Archie/Archer, who used Blanton as his last name. Some have said that the Blanton line from Archie/Archer could call themselves Womack, if they so desired! DNA evidence has now been used to prove this "affair." To compicate things even further, one of the children from this Archie/Archer "Blanton" line later married another Womack! I think that Ann Nancy Womack was a sister to John (who married "Unknown"), William (who married Margaret Moss), Thomas (who married Ann), Elizabeth and Jane. John and "Unknown" had Joel, John, Hannah, Alexander, Rebecca and Vincent. William and Margaret had Isabell and William (who married Hanna Hobbs). William and Hanna had Obediah, Jeremiah, Mary, Reubin, John, Elizabeth, Vincent, Rutha, Joel, A! gnes, Claiborne and Hannah. This is about all I know (and like I said above, it needs to be confirmed). I have been tracking my Davidson family, and came across a connection with the Blantons, Baldwins, Bakers, Womacks and others in Prince Edward County, VA.